BOOK SUGGESTION: Living with Kids, Solutions for Family-Friendly Interiors

Living with Kids: Solutions for Family-Friendly Interiors is a great, resourceful book that offers ideas and suggestions on creating a home that meets everyone's needs. 

Editorial Review via Amazon:

Many parents think decorating is something that happens after the kids grow up. But the anticipation of chocolate smears, juice stains, and rough play doesn’t have to resign parents to a home devoid of style.  Living with Kids is the book families with children have been waiting for. It goes beyond creating kid-specific spaces like nurseries and playrooms to decorating and organizing the entire home to help adults and kids coexist in harmony—and in style. 

The key: establishing centers of activity for everything, from play and relaxation to grooming and schoolwork. Whether readers are anticipating a new baby or living with a teenager, this book offers clever solutions for establishing an environment that can adapt to the ever- changing needs of growing children.  Useful tips and sidebars suggest great ways to store and organize kids’ stuff so it doesn’t take over the house, to create multi-use rooms that make the most of the space, essential products and accessories that stand up to the wear and tear of kids yet appeal to an adult sensibility, and more.  Realistic and creative, Living with Kids addresses a timeless challenge with savvy, modern solutions.  Writer and design specialist Eugenia Santiesteban currently serves as assistant editor for Elle Decor.

Happy Reading!

BOOK SUGGESTION: Real Simple 799 New Uses for Old Things

A friend of mine, who has a blog called One Creative Mom, was in the bookstore last week and told me about a must-have book...actually let me reword that and instead say, RESOURCE, instead of book. Real Simple magazine recently released this magazine/book called 799 New Uses for Old Things: An encyclopedia of innovative ideas for everyday items. How awesome! It's more like a book than a magazine, but it can be found in the magazine aisle, along with other home decor books.

What creative ways to YOU reuse items around your house?

BOOK SUGGESTION: Built-in Ideas

Here is suggestion for a book on built-ins: New Built-in Idea BK

Commentary: " Do-it-yourself home projects have become a national pastime, and nothing satisfies that urge more then creating built-ins. The fact that they are a permanent part of a house makes it more critical that they be done with as much skill and imagination as possible."

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